Friday, April 06, 2012

Value

God could have reconciled mankind to himself by a thought
but he chose to do it by giving us infinite value.
To redeem me he chose to give away his Only Begotten.
Oh Infinite, the value he places on me.
He gave away His own Son to purchase me!
I am the God Ransomed!

We are Divinely bought,
The Human Race, from our beginning to our end has today Infinite value.
Each infant, each drunk, each mother,
each murderer, each rapist, each hater,
each mad beggar, each boring fool, each oaf, each lout.
Each is of Infinite value, more precious even than the only Son of God.
Each dearly bought by iron nail and wood, blood and spittle, torn flesh and tormented Deity
There is no cheap, worthless humanity under the the shadow of the Cross,
or in the Divine Heart...

The article is excellent but you selectged the Grunewald Christ on the Cross from the Issenheim altarpiece at Colmar today. A great painting but many Catholic commentators say it is a"protestant work" in showing a certain amount not just of agony but of despair

And, due respect to Fr Michael, but Protestants get things right about Our Lord quite often, let's welcome that fact, rather than quibble. It's my own idea of true oecumenism. I see no despair, but sorrow and pain.

Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna

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